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Friday, May 12, 2006
Lyn Carter - Textiles to camouflage the everyday
Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery: Friday, May 12, 2006 To Sunday, June 25, 2006
Lyn Carter's work combines an intricate textile surface with unusual forms. Pattern becomes a codified language that is stretched like a skin over undulating and pendulous shapes. For this exhibition the artist has created ornate fabric sleeves that cover and contain inanimate everyday objects - in this case Dollar store plates, bowls and platters. The artist arranges these pregnant pouches in elaborate mappings or constellations on the wall of the Gallery. ...